Pound Lane () is a lane in

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on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

Location

Pound Lane is located between Bonham Road and

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. The Lane runs parallel to

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and

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Name

It was the site of a government

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where straying animals, like cows and

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, were kept. The Lane appeared on the Rates List for 1870. There was one Yee Yik occupied premises in the lane and he was a cowkeeper, while another building was occupied by one Chaoupai who was listed as a goatherd.

Nearby

* Tung Wah Hospital * Tai Ping Shan Street * Blake Garden * Po Hing Fong * Catholic Mission School * Rutter Street * Government Quarters, Sheung Wan * Hospital Road *

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Second mid-level escalator

The Central and Western District Council is considering installing a new escalator on Pound Lane, the Blake Garden area could well be on its way to becoming Hong Kong's next trendy neighbourhood. Urban planning critic John Batten, who has lived in the neighbourhood for nearly 20 years, is blunt about the prospects. "The escalator would be the death of the area," he said. Noise levels would increase, prices would go up and developers would be keen to exploit the area's 30-storey height limits. "You have to wonder who is pushing this idea behind the scenes," he said. The escalator's chief proponent has been the local branch of the

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, whose community relations officer, Kathy Siu Ka-yi, can be seen on dozens of posters and banners supporting the project.A sleepy area caught between slow gentrification or mass development
''South China Morning Post''. Christopher DeWolf. 27 March 2011.

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